Among its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012, Physics World also lists the 'Entangling twisted beams' experiment by Zeilinger et.al. See the full list at http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/dec/14/physics-world-revea...

We're writing to you with a Call for Students for the 2013 ITAMP/B2 Institute Winter Graduate School on AMO Physics to be held on the B2 Campus near Tucson in Arizona, from Jan 4-11, 2013. This year's theme is on "Quantum Control of Mesoscopic Systems". The registration is open at http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/itamp/B2-institute-13.html, which also includes the list of lecturers.

Sponsored by the American Physical Society/ Division of Laser Science (APS/DLS), the Institute of Electronic Engineers Photonics Society (Photonics Society) and the Optical Society (OSA), CLEO, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics provides the full range of critical developments in the field, showcasing the most significant milestones from laboratory to marketplace.

You are cordially invited to attend the International Conference on Quantum Metrology (QM) in Poznan, Poland. The QM 2013 is organized by Poznan University of Technology (Poland) with collaboration with Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena (Germany).

This conference is designed to bring together leading scientists in the field of quantum optics, quantum information processing, and quantum cryptography. It will offer an updated review of recent activities both in theoretical and experimental research.

The conference programme will consist of oral and poster presentations on the following topics that include, but are not limited to:

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 13th ‘International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations’ (ICSSUR 2013) which will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from June 24 to June 28 2013. It will be organized by the Max Planck Institute for the science of light and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

• The emergence of quantum information theory from quantum mechanics
• Many-body quantum simulation
• Qubits: Semiconductor quantum dots
• Quantum entanglement and teleportation
• Qubits: Josephson-junction devices
• Quantum communication, error correction
• Physical implementation of quantum computers
• Qubits: Optical and microwave photons
• Qubits: Majorana fermions

Two-week course with about 45 hours of lectures for students and young scientists

The discussions at and around the next summit of the European Union heads of states and governments, which is scheduled for 22 and 23 November, will be decisive in determining the EU research budget for the next seven years. Several Member States are demanding severe cuts on the total EU budget and research will have to compete with other policy priorities.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

Read the official announcement on nobelprize.org.

Chairs: Marco Bellini, Francesco S. Cataliotti, Augusto Smerzi (Firenze, Italy)

With support from

QSTAR
Joint MPQ, IIT, LENS, UniFi Center for Quantum Science and Technolog